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You've got the sprinters fighting to survive the

mountains with the dream of winning in Paris.

And then you've got the GC riders who are fighting for the yellow jersey.

We have to prove that we have the strongest

team, but still a lot can happen in the race.

I have to keep the focus.

If something happens, I could lose the Tour.

Now all the riders have got to apply complete

concentration if they want a chance to get to Paris.

We're in the Pyrenees, the scene of the final battle for the yellow jersey.

Jonas Wengergaard, the Tour's leader so far.

He is 2 minutes and 22 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar.

The Slovenian will hound him all the way to the end.

The battle for the yellow jersey isn't over.

Today we hit the long climbs, the terrain where

it's possible to make it difficult for Pogacar.

It's not easy.

This gives me a lot of confidence.

Jonas has the yellow jersey, but it's not a day of sinking

trying to survive the day and getting one day closer to Paris.

It's like there's an opportunity to take time to win the

stage and to get an even bigger lead on the yellow jersey.

The last 5K of that climb were actually quite hard.

7.7% average.

Wout and Seb always stay with Jonas.

We save them as long as possible.

If I'm there, I do a final pill pull on the yellow jersey.

Is this the first part?

Yes, we just set a really hard pace.

I would also like it that I still have something left for the last 300 meters.

So I'm not really on the limit there.

I can't put you on the limit.

Well, don't take too much confidence that we lean back today.

Because it's still two really, really hard days.

And I think three and a half hours, four hours of racing.

With 100% concentration.

It's a tough day.

Only 129.7 kilometers, but 3,300 meters of altitude.

All packed into the second part of the day.

It's absolutely brutal.

Today was not really perfect for us.

Once we had the climb, we stick together and we just set the pace.

That Fabio can handle, which you guys already know.

It's a sprinter.

You have a bigger body type.

If you're the fastest on 250 meters flat, you're

not going to be the fastest up one-hour climbs.

Every sprinter wants to win one time on the Champs-Élysées.

But first you have to get them over the mountains.

Because if you don't finish that stage, you're out of the tour.

I think we really have to fight to keep Fabio in the race.

It's tough.

But everybody is focused.

They only have one goal.

To bring Fabio home.

Come on, guys.

We go to Paris, eh?

Yes.

Almost.

This is Tour de France.

You want to stay in the race, of course.

And I want Paris.

I have to get there.

Will Wengergaard increase his lead or will Pogacar reduce the gap?

Two, one...

And they're off on the 17th stage between Saint-Gaudin and Père Gout.

The final stages in the mountains, well, they can be really depressing.

And Tadej Pogacar is hoping to press through

his time advantage on Jonas Wengergaard.

The pace is fast.

A peloton in single file.

Here comes Jonas Wengergaard, the yellow jersey, well supported by his teammates.

I expect that Pogacar will... will keep attacking me.

And we'll just have to try to do our best to follow it.

Pogacar has sent Michal Björk to the front to put pressure on the Jumbo-Visma team.

At the back, they're struggling.

The sprinters are in survival mode today.

Of course, the mountains, they're not my terrain.

And there's only so much I can take.

It's a difficult stage with an unusual finish.

And it's going to leave its mark.

We're over halfway, guys.

You do super well.

Super good.

Wout van Aert is distanced.

F***ing hell.

The green jersey, Wout van Aert, has dropped behind.

Van Aert has fallen behind the yellow jersey group.

He can't keep up this pace.

Seppi, Jonas needs you now.

Wout has dropped.

Seppi, Jonas needs you now.

Go on.

Wout needs to fight.

Nah.

It's difficult, right?

Yeah, on a final climb like this, it's just suffering.

Pogacar has managed to isolate Wengergaard.

We're waiting to see what happens next.

And there it is.

Tani Pogacar attacks.

They can see the finish line.

The wall right in front of them.

Pogacar attacks on the right-hand side.

And

A.

Pogacar gets the better of Jonas Wengergaard

and wins the 17th stage at Peddergoed.

Jonas was on the limit.

A day to forget.

Chaos ride to the end for this group of sprinters who are finishing with Jasper

Philipsen doing zigzags to try and lower the gradient.

Today we have an allotted time of 37 minutes.

The riders really don't have all day and could run out of time.

To be on tomorrow's start line, they have to finish in time.

Fabio Jakobsen is fighting at the back of the race.

Fighting for survival.

Cycling is a tough sport and also tough decisions.

When you come into the last climb and you know it's difficult, it's a hard one.

Because in your heart you would let the whole team wait.

But you don't want to lose the whole team.

And then at a certain point you say to the other ones, just go, go.

Florian, Mikkel, Lampie, you guys can go.

The team have decided to leave Fabio Jakobsen.

I remember Florian, he did not want to leave me.

The last thing he said when he looked at

me, he said, come on, you're going to Paris.

And then I nodded at him and I thought, it's going to be close, but...

There's only one rider out on the course now.

You will make it Fabio, don't worry.

Just focus on the numbers.

Here you push, you're going to make it.

Come on.

If we give up, the next day is over.

You have to go home.

Jakobsen trying to make it to Paris.

About 300 meters to go.

This is a race against time for the sprinter.

This is a horrible finish.

And the broom wagon just behind him.

In the moment, you're so tired and empty.

The legs start to block.

My lungs struggle breathing.

You can't hear anything at all.

Oh, fall, fall!

Can Fabio Jakobsen make it inside the time limit?

The clock is against him.

150 to go.

Look at this soigneur shouting at him.

Come on now!

Fabio!

Yeah!

Hurry!

Yeah!

Hurry!

After

Poland, I see him with the face destroyed.

And today, chapeau.

He never gives up.

He never gives up.

Yeah.

He has my respect.

And he's my friend.

It must have felt like a victory in some ways.

No, it didn't.

No, it didn't.

Pogacar wins at Peregut.

It's his third stage victory on the Tour this year.

That was kind of a wake-up call.

Pogacar attacking.

He will never give up and settle for second.

Jumbo's plan today was to increase their advantage on Pogacar.

And not only did they fail in that mission, but

they, in fact, lost four seconds against him.

Are you still optimistic that you can win the Tour de France 2022?

Yeah.

Are we going straight to the hotel?

Yes.

Are you feeling okay?

Oh, yeah.

I didn't really have great legs.

So when I saw Bjarke riding at the front there, I thought, oh, no.

I didn't see it coming.

Let me put it that way.

I didn't see it coming.

Let me put it that way.

I didn't see it coming.

Let me put it that way.

It was real, like that.

I was in the last three.

Oh, yeah.

With the two of you, then.

No, Wout was always sitting in second.

Yeah, but when Bjarke started pulling, also Wout drifted back.

Yeah, I just watched it in the media.

Yeah, Wout got dropped, I think, by the...

The Turk-tribe, huh?

Yeah.

We were solving the world problems.

Easy.

We're all right.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Wound soldier.

Yeah.

I was definitely supposed to look after the leaders for this stage, but also,

yeah, I did the job way earlier on than I was supposed to do, because I was just not

on the level that you need to be for a hard stage like that.

I definitely have way more moments when I doubt myself than everybody thinks.

It's not easy for anybody, and also not for me.

Welcome to the 18th stage of the Tour de France, the day when anything could happen.

After cracking on the 17th stage, everyone has one question.

Is Wout van Aert ready and able to help out his leader?

Wout, he was dropped from the group.

Yeah, pretty bad day for us.

Of course, it's another hard day today again.

One more day.

We have to be, again, really, really concentrated, focused.

Jonas, you always follow Pogacar.

When today Pogacar attacks, I'm always worried.

I could lose the Tour.

So, Wout, you will jump, but also for Jonas yourself,

it's important to be in position there in the beginning.

Yeah, of course, we need to help each other.

But also someone has to look for Jonas in the bunch.

Yes.

And especially also when you feel you need somebody around, also say it.

We want to have Wout in the breakaway so that if I would

be getting in any kind of trouble, he could help me.

Yeah, I'm lying when I say I'm 110% confident.

To protect Jonas, Wout just has to give it everything.

It's make or break.

Team

Jersey accelerates immediately.

My

role will be to do a really high pace, to take enough advantage before the big climb.

Then drop back and protect Jonas.

Tadej Pogacar followed closely by the yellow jersey, Jonas Vengergaard.

Guys, be ready for the Obis.

There will be a new fight on Obis, right?

Pogacar attacks.

And Vengergaard refuses to let him go.

Oh my God, I'll stick to his wheel.

Another big attack from the white jersey.

And there goes Pogacar, he's accelerating all the way.

He's trying to drop Vengergaard.

He's created quite a gap.

And now Vengergaard has launched to catch him.

Whoa, the yellow jersey nearly crashes.

Yeah, did you see that?

Well, the yellow jersey, he's out of scare, he's unclipped.

The yellow jersey.

He came close to disaster.

Pogacar is putting the yellow jersey under pressure from

all angles, even on the descents at 80 kilometers an hour.

At the front, Wout van Aert glances around to see where his leader is.

Wout, they're about to come to you, they're about to come to you.

Vengergaard looks like he's recovered from those attacks.

I tried to make the pace really high so Jonas could profit.

I really went over my limit.

You're a fucking motorbike, Wout.

You're a fucking motorbike, come on.

The pace is extremely high.

Wow, van Aert is going beyond his limits.

Pogacar drops, the white jersey isn't behind

him, the white jersey is no longer there.

Pogacar's in trouble, Pogacar's in difficulty.

Pogacar has dropped, Pogacar has dropped, come on, come on.

Wout van Aert has brought Tadej Pogacar down.

Come on, Wout, make the difference now, make the difference.

100%, they're 100% now.

There's nothing more Pogacar can do.

Wout, in the end, after attacking, every other person would have been destroyed.

He gave everything and he pulled Jonas 20, 25 seconds away.

I

know you did yourself.

Time trial to the finish, three and a half go to the finish.

The

yellow jersey alone at the summit of the last

category climb of this year's Tour de France.

You take a very, very serious option on overall victory.

Can we talk about that or you don't want to talk about it yet?

I don't want to talk about it yet.

Let's talk about that in two days.

Wengergaard has a good stranglehold after the mountain stages, but it's only after

the time trial that we'll see if he can win the Tour in Paris.

Testing times today with the time trial.

Welcome to stage 20.

If Wengergaard keeps first place, we will

have a new first-time Tour de France champion.

Today is the last time trial.

Yeah, I mean, what if I have a bad day?

Yeah.

Throughout the Tour this year, Wout has been an incredible ally to Jonas.

But on this time trial, it's just Jonas and his bike now.

But there's no 100% guarantee that Jonas will

keep that lead comfortably in the time trial.

We learned our lesson, of course, in 2020 when

we were beaten in the last day in the time trial.

Red

for Primoz Roglic.

What's happening to the yellow jersey is terrible.

So tough for the Slovenian, who's been the boss of the Tour for two weeks.

He's crumbling the day before the Champs-Élysées.

There is the winner of the Tour de France 2020.

Unfortunately, Pogacar then had a very, very good day, and Primoz had maybe a

little bit below average day, and Pogacar was

able to turn it around and to win the Tour.

In 2020, on the last time trial of the Tour,

Primoz Roglic was beaten by Tadej Pogacar.

How did Jumbo Visma manage to lose this Tour de France?

What happened two years ago is sitting in the back of my head.

I mean...

I don't want that to happen today.

Good luck.

You're going to enjoy it.

Yes, you too.

One more time.

Wout van Aert on the start ramp.

The Belgian's cornering is spot on.

The green jersey takes first place.

Smashes the competition.

Wout van Aert is ahead in the time trial.

He takes his place in the hot seat and waits for his opponents.

Tadej Pogacar, second in the general classification, about to head off.

In the general classification, he's 3 minutes and 26 seconds behind Wengergaard.

What will that deficit be at the finish?

The last rider to start is Jonas Wengergaard.

This is the time trial of his life.

His goal.

To keep the yellow jersey and make sure he takes it to Paris tomorrow.

Jonas, come on.

Do a good start.

The pressure on his shoulders is massive.

For now, Pogacar is faster than van Aert.

Come on.

Push it down.

There's a tiny bit of uptime.

Going really well there.

Pogacar is giving all he's got.

Going right to the limit.

Wengergaard is riding his time trial flat out.

Taking all kinds of risks.

He's set.

It's a highly technical section.

Even van Aert seems worried for him.

Pogacar approaches the finish.

The Slovenian who keeps coming back.

But he won't be wearing yellow in Paris this year.

Wengergaard on the final climb.

It's Wout that you're winning the stage.

It's Wout that you're winning the stage.

I will tell you that you finished second.

You wanted that.

I said before the stage to Grisha that if the stage was

to be decided between Wout and me, he should say it to me.

And then I would slow down.

Aert, our PR manager, he said like, yeah, maybe he's giving it to you.

And I was like, what did you say?

So actually I was emotional from that moment because I never thought about this.

Wengergaard takes his foot off the gas for the final run in.

And Wout van Aert is going to win this stage.

Final corner for the yellow jersey.

You can start to enjoy things.

Jonas Wengergaard will be the Tour de France winner in Paris tomorrow.

You don't often see Wout van Aert cry.

I won it for my family.

For my girlfriend and for my daughter.

A Danish winner for a Tour de France that set off in Denmark three weeks ago.

So proud of you, Jonas.

So proud.

You won the Tour now, eh?

Now you really won the Tour.

What does it mean to win the Tour de France?

I'm just so happy and proud.

I want to win races and today I hope to take the stage.

Apparently he's such a big heart that he thought the same.

Everyone is so happy for each other.

And I'm also really, really happy for Wout to win today.

The most beautiful moment for me in the Tour.

And a moment I will never forget.

These guys are really my friends.

Brothers.

Yeah, brothers I would say.

The general classification is set.

It can't be changed.

But for the sprinters, the Tour is not over.

The Champs-Élysées is their holy grail.

In the end, Jakobsen, what he has done this year... Well, it's like a miracle.

It's hard to come back from a very serious injury.

He was close to death.

He lived.

To me, he's a true hero.

After the crash in Poland and fighting for my life.

I want to do what I like to do.

Let's race.

We have to stop speaking about the dramatic crash.

We have to look forward.

And we take it with us as a bad memory.

But I think it makes him stronger.

First time Champs-Élysées.

And yeah, I wanted to sprint for the win.

Okay, boys.

We are in Paris in the last one.

And it's a very important one.

It always goes fast and it's really tough.

And the cobblestones of the Champs-Élysées,

especially when you come down, you really get hit.

Whatever scenario there is, Fabio has to be here in a position that he can win.

And Fabio, it's a sprint.

Usually a long sprint, a tough sprint.

Because you only have one acceleration.

And it's not like on a flat sprint.

You can directly take two bars.

Two bikes.

But once you have the spot, you just go.

But once we get to the Champs-Élysées, it's full on, full gas.

Your legs are going to swell.

You're not going to feel really good.

Everybody's going to laugh and smile.

But we stay just focused in the race.

I knew I had a good shot.

It's been in the back of my head for the last four or five days of the tour.

So I really wanted to get a result there.

I have good motivation for the day.

It's one last sprint and the tour is over.

And you can start drinking beer and eating pizza after.

Today is probably one of the most important as a sprinter.

Because everybody wants to win and raise their arms in the iconic Champs-Élysées.

It's just something I really look forward to now.

And do my fucking best the last 200 meters.

Okay guys, the last one.

Champs-Élysées.

The ultimate grandeur.

Jasper, did you do the sprint today?

We think it's time.

We discussed a bit and Edward will be the last man for you today.

The question is why we do this?

Because why do we want to suddenly change this?

It's not really changing, but we have spoken through also with Alexander.

And we think that is the right composition seeing the strength he has also for the

moment left at the end of this three weeks.

For me, I agree also.

So then it's good?

But it's just to change the habits for the last stages.

I don't know if that's the right.

So our goal is to perform every time as good as possible.

We try to set a standard.

I see something in my head and the result has to be like that.

Otherwise, for me, there is no point.

I think we know all what we do, but it's just habits that...

But yeah, of course, I understand Jasper, but I think

we have to think about optimize our full potential.

Christophe, our sports director, he puts on a bit more pressure.

I really don't care to retry or to restart.

It has to be like it.

I think in my mind it can be.

Having survived the mountains, this is a much anticipated moment for the sprinters.

And now it's the 21st and final stage of the Tour de France.

It goes from Paris to the Champs-Élysées.

There's a parade at the top.

And when it starts, it's like a party for everyone.

Jumbo-Visma saves his victory 100 kilometers from the finish line.

This year they guided us through the Louvre, where we just kind of raced.

The sprinters get ready.

Another 60 kilometers to the finish line.

You know it's the last stage, so you just can go full for the win.

A change of atmosphere.

We're approaching the Champs-Élysées.

We're entering the final stages.

Acceleration.

Everybody knows this task.

We ain't gonna lose this one, eh?

Come on.

As a sport director, you just want to get the best out of the riders.

It's a bit like your own children, eh?

You just want that it doesn't go wrong.

And just want to be there to support them the whole way.

Fabio Jakobsen fully focused.

Yeah, OK, but you stay with Fabio.

Bajie, you pull.

The peloton around the Arc de Triomphe.

Riding Champs-Élysées is not a walk in the park.

It's tough.

The surface of the road is bad.

Because you have some cobbles that are loose on the tarmac.

Look at those vibrations.

How much the chains move when you ride over cobbles at 70 kilometers per hour.

How much the chains move when you ride over cobbles at 70 kilometers per hour.

You are all right in the peloton.

All good, you guys.

Perfect.

Hey, come on, guys.

Hurry up now.

You've got to go.

Go!

Come on!

The speed is incredible.

They seem to fly when they pass by.

And two laps from the finish line.

The team's reformed.

You can see Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl in front of Fabio Jakobsen.

One lap to go.

Come on.

There is Fabio in the middle.

Oh, yeah, right there in the middle.

And Saint-Michel is in front of him.

Good, good, good.

They are suffering on the bike.

I am suffering in the seat.

And, of course, you hope that all the sacrifice of the kids of three weeks to

bring him to the finish, that it will be a reward with a win.

And after this corner, this will be the last lap of the Tour de France.

The teams of sprinters try to find each other again.

Guys,

then we pull full.

Baggio.

All the way.

Come on, boys.

Then we pull full.

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl is trying to regain control.

But it's tough.

They're all over the place.

Yves and Florian, you stay with Fabio.

Thomas is not alone.

I know it.

I know it.

I know it.

We are not going to let those guys be full.

Those guys are in the race.

Yes, but they are not... I know the trick.

Don't panic.

If you don't care about driving, it's just that it was a sprint.

You can't keep driving upright.

And Philipsen is brought back up by his team.

If you put it in position, you can still be third.

It's going to be a sprint pure of the power.

Boys, we have the fans on board.

You fight for position.

Gripana FDJ attack.

Fabio Jacobsen in pursuit.

Jasper, the final.

Jasper, the final.

Front now.

It's the last game.

Philipsen takes matters in hand and takes advantage of another team's work.

That's not a good spot to sit in.

This is

the most important part.

Come on, come on.

Last right-hand turn.

They can see the arctic trail.

The finish line is getting close.

All the sprinters are there.

Fabio Jacobsen ready to start his sprint.

Oh, there's a problem.

Victory.

Victory.

Fabio had a mechanical problem.

I was going to start my sprint.

And I just paddled into thin air.

So I lost the chain.

Probably on a small dip.

The Champs-Élysées is not flat.

That's why it's such an iconic finish.

So probably I was just unlucky.

We're 300 metres from the finish.

It's time for the sprinters to go at full speed.

Pedersen is there.

Here comes Dylan Groenewegen, launching his sprint from a long way out.

Groenewegen in the lead.

Jasper Philipsen goes on the right.

Jasper Philipsen wins on the Champs-Élysées.

If he can...

He did finish the Tour.

Something that usually makes you stronger.

So I tried to look at the positive.

But...

Losing is not one of my best abilities.

He had a lead-out.

And I got speed.

Okay, I'm a bit further.

But I still have my legs.

Three weeks, three weeks, three weeks.

And then... I think it sucks.

It sucks.

I always learned.

Even if you lose.

And I hate losing.

The world turns.

There will be an evening.

There will be next morning.

With us, without us, whatever.

The world goes on.

It's something you'll keep on remembering for the rest of your life.

And will always be proud of.

That was just beautiful.

Not everybody is like I am.

When you win one time, you want to win twice.

And when you win twice, you want to win again.

You want to win three times.

And that's how it goes.

If

you have a good tour, everyone is happy.

And they get drunk.

And if it doesn't go to plaid, they get drunk anyway.

We've got to continue moving forward, working.

Looking for other ways to win the tour.

Maybe one day I'll get there.

But maybe I never will.

But mentally, and in terms of determination.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes and yes.

The Tour is just the biggest within cycling.

I would like to come back to the Tour de France.

I think we have a good chance of winning that again.

People

have learned from this series about our sport.

It's that it's really a team sport.

If people are going to see that, I would be happy.